Bobrisky: Beneath the surface

His sensational trial and imprisonment showed that things are not always what they seem. Idris Okuneye, the controversial cross-dresser and transgender man popularly known as Bobrisky, probably had it coming in a largely conservative: “I have not read anywhere where cross-dressing is an offence in Nigeria.

Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, Lagos, was unimpressed; and, on April 12, sentenced him to six months in prison without a fine option. “His will serve as a deterrent to others,” the judge said.In February, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, convicted actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, and sentenced her to six months in prison with a N300,000 fine option for spraying and stepping on naira notes at a party in Lagos.

Bobrisky abused the naira. But his punishment, though not unlawful, may well have been influenced by something beneath the surface.

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